Monitor in a Box vs Vulcan

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Monitor in a Box vs Vulcan: What are the differences?

Developers describe Monitor in a Box as "Instantly usable, open source monitoring". Collect and maintain a history of both application performance and infrastructure health metrics. On the other hand, Vulcan is detailed as "DigitalOcean's API-compatible alternative to Prometheus". Vulcan is an API-compatible alternative to Prometheus. It aims to provide a better story for long-term storage, data durability, high cardinality metrics, high availability, and scalability. Vulcan is much more complex to operate, but should integrate with ease to an existing Prometheus environment.

Monitor in a Box and Vulcan can be primarily classified as "Monitoring" tools.

Monitor in a Box and Vulcan are both open source tools. Vulcan with 542 GitHub stars and 32 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Monitor in a Box with 93 GitHub stars and 16 GitHub forks.

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What is Monitor in a Box?

Collect and maintain a history of both application performance and infrastructure health metrics.

What is Vulcan?

Vulcan is an API-compatible alternative to Prometheus. It aims to provide a better story for long-term storage, data durability, high cardinality metrics, high availability, and scalability. Vulcan is much more complex to operate, but should integrate with ease to an existing Prometheus environment.

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